Police, and Mayor, Ignore A Protest on City Hall Steps
Date: 08 December 1998
By Abby Goodnough
Abby Goodnough
Group of City Council members rebel against unusually tight security at City Hall by holding news conference on building's steps, but Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani passes them by without comment; police take no action to stop protest, although news conferences and demonstrations have been banned from the steps since August; demonstrators say ban is attempt by Giuliani to quash participatory government; photo (M)
Full Article
Unfazed by Excess, the Pundits Chatter On . . . and On
Date: 09 December 1998
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman Critic's Notebook column on television's talking heads, and foolish, pointless, peculiar things they spout; notes that while politicians can be kicked out of office, corporate executives can lose their perks and athletes can be fined, the privileged cadre of chattering class goes on forever; holds programs that started out as discussions have slid down slopes of entertainment to sheer blather; comments on remarkably wrong predictions of regular panelists on ABC's This Week; photo of Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, Bill Kristol, George Will and George Stephanopoulos (M)
Full Article
TV NOTES; Tumultuous Era
Date: 09 December 1998
By Lawrence Mifflin
Lawrence Mifflin
ABC News to present two-hour documentary The Whole World Was Watching, a look back at tumultuous year of 1968 (S)
Full Article
Report Sees Media as Source of New Jobs
Date: 09 December 1998
By Leslie Eaton
Leslie Eaton
Report issued by Citizen's Budget Commission says that media and communications industries, which include everything from advertising to publishing to computer programming, will be major source of new jobs in New York City over next few years (M)
Full Article
GLOBAL TELESYSTEMS AGREES TO PURCHASE ESPRIT TELECOM
Date: 09 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Global Telesystems Group Inc, backed by billionaire George Soros, agrees to buy rival Esprit Telecom Group PLC for $757 million in stock; it will also assume $228 million in debt (S)
Full Article
PALOMAR TO SELL HAIR-REMOVAL LASER UNIT TO COHERENT
Date: 09 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Coherent Inc to buy Palomar Medical Technologies Inc's Star Medical Technologies unit for $65 million in cash (S)
Full Article
KELLSTROM TO BUY SOLAIR UNIT FROM BANNER AEROSPACE
Date: 08 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kellstrom Industries is buying Banner Aerospace Inc's Solair Inc unit for $57 million in cash (S)
Full Article
TORSTAR INCREASES CASH PORTION OF BID FOR SUN MEDIA
Date: 08 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Torstar Corp, poublisher of Toronto Star, increases its offer for Sun Media Corp by 16.6 percent, to $19.34 (Canadian) a share in cash and stock; deal is valued at $908 million (Canadian), or about $592 million (US) (S)
Full Article
KINROSS GOLD TAKING CHARGE TO WRITE DOWN MINES' VALUE
Date: 09 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kinross Gold Corp to take fourth-quarter charge of $216.1 million, that includes cost of its acquisition of Amax Gold Inc (S)
Full Article
IN WAKE OF BOEING MOVES, NORTHROP PLANS MORE JOB CUTS
Date: 08 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Northrop Grumman Corp, one of Boeing Co's largest suppliers, will cut additional 1,100 jobs next year as result of Boeing's plan to slash jet production (S)
Full Article